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Hakim

#2,776 in 2025Boys' name

Wise

Hakim has been given to 2,361 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #2,776 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Hakim, 2025

1 in 72,100

Hakim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hakim: meaning, origin, and history

Wise

Arabic

What Hakim means

Hakim means “wise”, associated with ḥakīm.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm, “wise”). This surname is mostly found in Indonesia.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hakim (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hakim is used in English and Malay. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hakim is pronounced /həˈkiːm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,361 boys were recorded with the name Hakim between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1976; its best national rank was #880 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,995 in 2020 to #2,776 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,115 in 2015 to #2,776 in 2025.

How common is Hakim?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 37,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,776
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hakim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hakim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hakims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hakim was born before 1993 — so the typical Hakim is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,361
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (503).

Is Hakim rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−377
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+219
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,339
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.84×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.1%
Peak was 1976 (90)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#880
1976

Spellings of Hakim

Hakim is not the most common spelling — Kim is, with 31.9% against Hakim's 2.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hakim is used

Across 1910–2025, Hakim was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 94,720 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hakim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hakim around the world

Where Hakim ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,276
    in 2025
  • France
    1954–2025
    #567
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Hakim

People whose public names include Hakim, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hakim by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,776
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 219
Best rank ever
#880
1976
Peak year
1976
90 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,361
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Hakim

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Hakim

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hakim, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hakim

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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